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J. Crew Guy ([info]j_crew_guy) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-08-07 21:01:00


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Entry tags:lj

This won't end well.
LJ FINALLY speaks.

It's already got a troll in writerspleasure, calling all the people posting serious questions/comments "whiners" and four(!) pages of comments so far.

Highlights in the post include a fauxpology for burr86's wanky comments, LJ still doesn't understand that Federal law doesn't cover depictions of fictional children in sexual situations and a lot of re-stating what they've said before.

Edit: Well, this is an interesting revelation. Actually, there are several members of various fandom communities involved on the review board, as well as the Abuse Prevention Team itself.

And this list of official statements made by LJ staff in the "clarification" lj_biz post should bear watching.

Edit 2: coffeechica is talking with LJ users in stupid_free here. Odds on how long before it gets deleted? Anyone? Anyone? ...Bueller?

...and LJ/6A employees can't even come up with their own boilerplate responses, because rachel (she of the icon where she's posing with a big glass of beer) plagarized a LJ user's comment to use as her own.

Oh, and the lj_biz post has maxed out at 5000 comments in about sixteen hours, which is a new record, I believe. People are going back to the previous lj_biz post to leave comments there, I think.

Edit 3: Godwin's was reached on page 17 of the lj_biz post. (Thanks to [info]khym_chanur for the link.)

The current lj_biz post has made cNet.

The whole thing has been covered by German news magazine Der Spiegel. And a translation. (Thanks to [info]airborne_rodent for those links.)

Slashdot covers it, too. As does Digg. (Thanks to [info]utahraptor for the Digg link.)

Edit 4: Our own [info]cat_mcdougall wrote up a semi-editorial article here. As she says, the "Fandome" is them editing my article.



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[info]hallidae
2007-08-08 05:23 am UTC (link)
Considering her answers about the anorexia comms, I'm not so sure that's a good thing.

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[info]telesilla
2007-08-08 06:29 am UTC (link)
Also she's said that Ponderosa didn't get suspended because her now infamous picture lack "artistic merit" only to have someone C&P the letter which contradicted her. No answer on the contradiction, of course.

Frankly, my thoughts on yaoi are I think the employees shouldn't answer any of the questions raised there off the cuff. They should have asked for opinions and discussion and then come back with a seperate post clarifying things.

Damn, there I go with the Earth logic.

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[info]_ladyshalott_
2007-08-08 09:36 am UTC (link)
IAWTC.


Also: ::looks at mods:: I posted a comment to that effect over there, which I hope won't be construed as wanking! I was making an honest suggestion, since they asked for all of our opinions, not trying to start something.

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[info]grrliz
2007-08-08 10:56 am UTC (link)
I think the employees shouldn't answer any of the questions raised there off the cuff. They should have asked for opinions and discussion and then come back with a seperate post clarifying things.

I totally agree, but then people would whine about how it took six days for them to post and how no one was responding to all the many important questions being raised in the comments, etc.

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[info]hallidae
2007-08-08 11:58 am UTC (link)
Isn't that what they just did? Except for the "responding to the important questions" part?

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[info]grrliz
2007-08-08 10:36 pm UTC (link)
... that's exactly my point. If they waited to repost all the answers in a new post, people would have the exact same reaction they're already having.

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[info]artimusdin
2007-08-09 07:29 pm UTC (link)
And yet, all they'd have to do was get off a quick "We're working on those answers, give us a few to get them" and at least we'd know we weren't being ignored. Whereas right now, some easy questions are being answered, while the questions that we'd really like to be answered are being ignored and/or deleted/screened.

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